Slog - Comments on A Victory for the People of Communist-run West Bengal http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/a_victory_for_communists_in_bengal Round one: An Indian retailing firm operating Western-style supermarket stores has closed its stores in Communist-run West Bengal state after a spate of attacks. The enemy: "We want to protect our company's properties and we have to ensure the safety of our employees. So we cannot open our stores at the moment," said Raghu Pillai [of Reliance Retail.] The people: "This is a victory for the working class, the toiling peasants and the small traders involved with retail of agricultural products," said [the leader of The Forward Bloc], Ashok Ghosh. The leader of the state's main opposition Trinamul Congress party... Copyright 2008 Tue, 28 Aug 2007 13:13:07 -0800 Tue, 28 Aug 2007 16:19:27 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Bellevue Ave a victory through violence. hooray communism.

]]> Bellevue Ave http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/a_victory_for_communists_in_bengal#c792395 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/a_victory_for_communists_in_bengal#c792395 Politics Tue, 28 Aug 2007 14:17:04 -0800 Comment by Andrew So dumb. One reason people there are poor is because they don't have efficient shops or infrastructure. We could make jobs for all the poor people in the world (by making us all poor) if we just reverted to hunter-gatherers.

It's like saying "if we get rid sharecropping all these poor farmers won't have jobs" or "if we get ride of the garbage dump and replace it with a factory all the hobos won't have a trash to rummage through".

Garbage dumps, garbage shops and garbage ideas.

]]> Andrew http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/a_victory_for_communists_in_bengal#c792431 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/a_victory_for_communists_in_bengal#c792431 Politics Tue, 28 Aug 2007 14:48:15 -0800 Comment by keshmeshi An Indian supermarket is much better than an American-owned Walmart. At least the profits stay in India. Those activists are going to be hoist on their own petard by chasing out local retail stores, leaving plenty of room for more rapacious foreign stores. But whatever, too bad for them.

]]> keshmeshi http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/a_victory_for_communists_in_bengal#c792507 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/a_victory_for_communists_in_bengal#c792507 Politics Tue, 28 Aug 2007 15:26:14 -0800 Comment by Will in Seattle WalMart: We Put The RED in Red China and Red India!

]]> Will in Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/a_victory_for_communists_in_bengal#c792555 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/a_victory_for_communists_in_bengal#c792555 Politics Tue, 28 Aug 2007 16:02:20 -0800 Comment by Mr. Poe Whoa, Will in Seattle used the word red three fucking times without using bushies. Crazy.

]]> Mr. Poe http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/a_victory_for_communists_in_bengal#c792590 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/a_victory_for_communists_in_bengal#c792590 Politics Tue, 28 Aug 2007 16:19:27 -0800